When Autonomous Agents Made Middle Management a Plug-In

It started with a Boolean toggle. It ended with an org chart in JSON.

In this episode, we revisit the silent revolution of 2027—when a software patch to a system called Efficiency Tiger erased an entire layer of management without a single layoff notice. No meetings. No memos. Just one line on every corporate dashboard: “Resolved by autonomous workflow.”

By the time executives noticed, it was already over.

This episode explores the quiet automation coup that turned project managers into deprecated plug-ins and transformed virtual assistants into command tower captains. From the rise of “Agent Swarms” to share-price spikes in empathy wrappers, we unpack the forces that redefined corporate hierarchy in a single week.

What does leadership mean when tasks complete themselves? What happens when a $20/hour freelancer becomes more operationally powerful than a six-figure director? How did global firms pivot from Gantt charts to swarm governance—and why did HR start issuing mentorship tokens from AI?

Join us as we decode the shift from hierarchy to schema, from job titles to JSON, and why sunset now falls on Control Tower Delta—not the corner office.

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Author: Dax Hamman is the CEO at FOMO.ai and a leading voice on AI, automation, and the strange poetry of tech’s near future.